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...Lloyd--Bridges, as Tom, and June Harding, as Teena, got their training in the TV wonderland of "Seahunt," "Wagon Train," "As the World Turns" and "Ben aCsey" and are totally incapable of registering even laughter with any skill. The only real entertainment is provided by the two pros of the cast, Dorothy Stickney as Mrs. Bigelow and especially Hiram Sherman as Pinky. Sherman is a masterful comic performer and has fine moments as he corrects Tom's spelling or meticulously peels a peach while listening to Tom's confessions, or praises the virtutes of his Pan Am flight bag that...
...knew the course like the back of his hammy hand after practically setting up residence there for the past month. "I'll have no alibis. I know I can shoot a 65," Jack announced, and when he laughed his way to a 67 in practice, even his fellow pros were ready to concede the $25,000 winner's check. "He should be an even bet against the field," Billy Casper insisted. Sighed Sam Snead: "With his power, Nicklaus starts out five strokes ahead of the rest...
...ball." Nicklaus had plenty of company. Unable to grip his clubs properly because of a circulatory ailment, Defending Champion Ken Venturi staggered in with an 81; Arnold Palmer, who also had a 67 in practice, got his figures reversed with a 76. Three pros finished in the 90s-"How am I ever going to explain this to the members at my club?" gulped one-and two more picked up in disgust...
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Shortage of Targets. Whatever the pros and cons about his policies, the President remained consistent. As always, he was ready to go to the negotiating table-but not as an exercise in futility, and not if the only prospect was to be the abandonment of Viet Nam by the U.S. Time and again, he told White House visitors, he had been urged by foreign statesmen to negotiate. Time and again he had expressed his willingness. Time and again he had asked those statesmen to go out and find some responsible party for him to negotiate with. So far, no luck...